SOUTH Africa’s intelligence unit plans to respond to allegations that it was unprepared to deal with a plot to assassinate
African Union Chairwoman Nkosazana
Dlamini- Zuma in 2012 contained in purported leaked cables cited by Al- Jazeera
television.

“We had meant to give a statement last night, but
it was delayed and will be issued some time today,” Brian Dube, spokesman for
the South African State Security Agency, said by phone on Wednesday. “The
statement from government will be a response to these developments around the
leakage.”

Another allegedly leaked cable published on Al
Jazeera’s website said a madrassa, or Islamic school, in Johannesburg trains
South African Muslim students and foreigners “to keep them ready for a possible
Jihad against USA aggression in the Middle East.”

Iran provided religious training to South African
students and its intelligence service focused on the arms and mining industries
and nuclear technology, according to the January 2010 cable.

South African intelligence officials were alerted
to the alleged plot to kill Dlamini-Zuma, the country’s former foreign
minister, a week after she took office in October 2012 in the Ethiopian
capital, Addis Ababa, according to the purported cables.
There was no attack
and the cables didn’t reveal the names of the alleged plotters, according to Al
Jazeera.